Educational Tutorials

In this tutorial, Professor Flaviá Ribeiro Machado, Professor of Intensive Care, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil, will discuss the challenges in sepsis management in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs).

In this tutorial, Doctor Timothy Rawson, Academic Clinical Fellow, Infectious Disease & Medical Microbiology, Imperial College, London will discuss the role of microbiology in the management of sepsis.

Two other tutorials are also available in the AMR/AMS tutorial section:

• Why is microbiological diagnosis important?
• Microbiological investigations.

In this tutorial series Professor Mervyn Singer will cover:

1. Definition of sepsis and need for new definition
2. How to spot sepsis and what are the warning signs
3. Sepsis and COVID-19 (October 2020)
4. 2021 Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines
5. Sepsis and COVID-19, 2 years after

In this tutorial, Professor Philipp Schuetz discusses the clinical utility of Procalcitonin to support Antimicrobial Stewardship in sepsis.

In these tutorials, Doctor Manu Shankar-Hari will present:

1. The Hour-1 bundle - Initial resuscitation for sepsis and septic shock;
2. The host response to infection in sepsis.